On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 ave Smith wrote:
>On 2021-01-31 Gary wrote:
>> Alex wrote:
>>> Matches *are* expensive!

I use wooden matches and I don't consider $1.29 a box expensive when a
box can last well beyond ten years.

>> What I miss are those books of paper matches. 20 matches in a book and a
>> box of 50 books for very little cost. Are they still made?
>>
>> I don't often look but I have looked in 2 grocery stores, 2 drug stores
>> for them. Even convenience stores had them but no longer.
>> All I've seen are wooden matches lately.
>>
>
>They still sell them here. You can also get boxes of wooden matches,
>both the safety heads and strike anywhere. What I have not seen in
>years are the promotional matchbooks. Hotels, restaurants, hotels,
>motels and many other business had handed out matchbooks. I don't know
>if they went the way of the dodo because of the popularity of disposable
>lighters of because smoking became unpopular.

I think book matches went the way of flat wooden toothpics. Now
plastic lighters are very inexpensive and so are plastic toothpics.
But we always keep wooden matches, sold in every stupidmarket.